A unified description of translational symmetry breaking in holography

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DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2019)124zbMATH Open1423.83067arXiv1904.05785WikidataQ126998142 ScholiaQ126998142MaRDI QIDQ2332264FDOQ2332264


Authors: Martin Ammon, Matteo Baggioli, Amadeo Jiménez-Alba Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 1 November 2019

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We provide a complete and unified description of translational symmetry breaking in a simple holographic model. In particular, we focus on the distinction and the interplay between explicit and spontaneous breaking. We consider a class of holographic massive gravity models which allow to range continuously from one situation to the other. We study the collective degrees of freedom, the electric AC conductivity and the shear correlator in function of the explicit and spontaneous scales. We show the possibility of having a sound-to-diffusion crossover for the transverse phonons. Within our model, we verify the validity of the Gell-Mann-Oakes-Renner relation. Despite of strong evidence for the absence of any standard dislocation induced phase relaxation mechanism, we identify a novel relaxation scale controlled by the ratio between the explicit and spontaneous breaking scales. Finally, in the pseudo-spontaneous limit, we prove analytically the relation, which has been discussed in the literature, between this novel relaxation scale, the mass of the pseudo-phonons and the Goldstone diffusivity. Our numerical data confirms this analytic result.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05785




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